Emerging severe and fatal infections due to Klebsiella pneumoniae in two university hospitals in France

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 49, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 3012-3014

  Decré, Dominique ^a   Verdet, Charlotte ^a   Emirian, Aurélie ^a   Le Gourrierec, Thibault ^a   Petit, Jean Claude ^a   Offenstadt, Georges ^a   Maury, Eric ^a   Brisse, Sylvain ^b   Arlet, Guillaume ^a  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^b INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CEPHALOSPORIN; GENTAMICIN; TICARCILLIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FATALITY; FRANCE; GENE SEQUENCE; HUMAN; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE INFECTION; LIVER ABSCESS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTYPE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; FRANCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KLEBSIELLA INFECTIONS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER ABSCESS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR TYPING; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; SEROTYPING;

KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE;

EID: 79960946551     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: 1098660X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.00676-11     Document Type: Article

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